“If someone wants to buy what someone owns, that includes the right to enforce that ownership”: Judge rejects Miley Cyrus’s motion to dismiss Bruno Mars song lawsuit – here’s whyA judge has opted to reject Miley Cyrus’s motion to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit filed over her Grammy-winning hit, Flowers.
The suit in question has been brought by Tempo Music Investments, which secured a quarter of the copyright of Bruno Mars When I Was Your Man from Phil Lawrence, one of its four writers (the others being Bruno Mars, Ari Levine and Andrew Wyatt).

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In the lawsuit – filed last September – TMI alleges that Flowers copied several melodic, harmonic and lyrical elements from When I Was Your Man. In November, Miley Cyrus and her co-authors filed a motion to dismiss, saying Tempo lacked grounds to sue.
Cyrus’s team said TMI did not have the same standing to sue that Lawrence – from whom it bought its share in the song – had, as they say a co-author can sell their profit interest in a copyrighted work, but this doesn’t transfer their individual right to sue for infringement without consent from the song’s co-owners. As TMI opted to sue without backing from Mars, Levine and Wyatt, Cyrus says its suit has no standing.
In 2024, Cyrus and her attorney, Peter Anderson, suggested that Tempo Music Investment’s claim held a flaw: “Plaintiff unambiguously [says] that it obtained its claimed rights in the When I Was Your Man copyright from only one of that musical composition’s four authors,” they said. Their justification for this is that partial interest only gives “non-exclusive rights” and therefore, at least in the US, they do not have the right to sue.
Anderson went on to note: “Plaintiff brings this copyright infringement action alone, without… [the] co-authors or other owners. Without the consent of the other owners, a grant of rights from just one co-owner does not confer standing.”
TMI was quick to disagree, claiming: “They’re seeking to make bogus technical arguments because they don’t have an actual substantive defence to the case. The law is clear that we have the right to enforce our interest.”
The assigned judge, Dean D. Pregerson, appears to understand TMI’s point. “If someone wants to buy what someone owns, buy the entire thing, that includes the right to enforce that ownership against the rest of the world. If you don’t allow that, then you diminish the value of what you’re selling to the point where it may become worthless,” he said [via MusicRadar].
Mars hasn’t yet commented on the legal proceedings, not have any of When I Was Your Man’s co-writers, Phil Lawrence, Ari Levine and Andrew Wyatt.
Now that the judge has rejected Miley Cyrus’s motion to dismiss, she and her team will have to face Tempo Music Investments’ copyright claim.
Remind yourself what both songs sound like below:

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The xx confirm they are back “in the studio” – will we hear new music in 2025?The xx have confirmed they are “in the studio” – but will we hear new music this year?
In a new post on the band’s Instagram page, band members Jamie xx, Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim are seen sat in a studio, appearing to be listening intently to some newly recorded music. The image was posted on 8 March with the caption, “Last week, in the studio.”

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The xx’s last full-length album was 2017’s I See You, but the members have collaborated since then on Jamie xx’s single Waited All Night, which featured on his second album, In Waves. At the time Jamie said, “It’s wonderful to have the gang back together.”
In December 2024, Romy spoke to NME to confirm that The xx were back in the studio. “I think Oliver and Jamie and I have all tried new things and learned a lot from different projects… I think it’s quite wide open and it’s exciting to be starting again in a way. But we’ve started making some music and I’m really excited about it,” she said.
Elaborating on the direction the sound could go in, she added, “It’s still pretty early [but] I still think you’ll be able to tell it’s us, but I think we’re excited to move it on and keep it feeling fresh.”
In the past few years, Romy has collaborated on and off with Fred again.., and, while she says The xx definitely needed a break, the experience she gained in working with Fred was invaluable.
“[I want] to offer Oliver and Jamie everything I have harvested,” she explained, “The three of us knew there was something new needed to explore. We all understood that we had to give ourselves some time to have space and learn new things.”

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No further details surrounding The xx’s new project are available at this time, but we’ll bring you them as we know more.
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Ableton Live 12.2 public beta announced Live 12.2 delivers updated devices for all editions, introduces an array of new features for Ableton's Push hardware, and adds two new devices to the Move and the Note iOS App. 

NOUMENIA sign exclusive worldwide deal w/ Eclipse Records Eclipse Records is excited to announce the signing of Noumenia, a post groove metal band from Northern Italy, who have crafted an explosive soul-striking sound that hits you square in the face, the mind, and the heart! The band recently finished recording their full-length debut album entitled Echoes with Richard Meiz of Lacuna Coil producing the album, and Daniele Salomone (Lacuna Coil, Inverno, D With Us) mixing & mastering at DDStudio Records. Echoes will be released via Eclipse Records on June 27, 2025.“Signing with Eclipse Records is without a doubt one of the best things that could have happened to us, and we are so excited to begin this journey!” says lead vocalist Vivian Nigro. “All we want for our music is to strike the listener with an insane amount of energy and to reach as many people as possible.” Bassist Matteo Campagnoli adds, “We achieved a complete synergy with Richard in the studio, resulting in what I believe is an incredible album. The journey took almost a year and demanded a lot of effort, but we were all united and driven, simply unstoppable.” Samuele Zichi (drummer) also said, “Signing with Eclipse Records is finally a sign that our music can leave a deep mark in someone, and that’s the main goal of our new album entitled Echoes. I hope everyone enjoys our work as much as we enjoyed making it!” Finally, guitarist Matteo Radaelli states “I am ecstatic about our collaboration with Eclipse, because it’s a big opportunity to bring our art and ideas to life. Echoes is a big step forward for us, because we think it can connect a lot of different people with different musical tastes, mainly because every song gives the opportunity to the listener to have affinity with the lyrics and the music.”Echoes is the title of the exciting post groove metal album by Noumenia, featuring heavy drumming, rhythmic virtuosity, ripsaw growl vocals, and a gargantuan guitar sound that literally reinvents the power of the power chord. Often, the songs on this record kick off with bizarre futuristic introductions constructed of suspense and trepidation, like movie soundtracks made for aliens, dangerous AI, and cyborgs gone mad, yet following these mystic “orchestral” and “celestial” preludes, Noumenia hit us with drop after drop that rock so hard we are stunned. The pound and burn on this record are massive, the hooks mesmerizing, the changes invigorating, the philosophical lyrics all too close to the heart, the bottom-side where we stockpile secrets and darkness. Musically, this record makes for a striking hybrid, explosive and smooth, hard diamond with a soft shine, a thick dose of dangerous velvet. Holistically, it seems that the band has a mission here to invigorate, exfoliate, and buzzsaw the brain so the new world looks real and raw. At the beginning of the record, we are asked to “Tear off the eyes, your sight is stale / Cut off your tongue, [and] never exhale.” That said, we are also prompted to approach each day from a position of strength and rejuvenation, as it says in focus track number one titled, “The Circle” that “From dust and bones, we’ll be reborn.” In the second focus track: “Fall Apart,” the traditional vocal warms us to the core and sets us on the sheer precipice of the monstrous growl symbolizing the fierce internal battles we wage in our effort to “Unbind the rope that chokes [the] heart.” Finally, with the third focus track: “Black Ocean,” we are exposed to a variety of vocals that are in themselves a symphony of tone, pitch, and power. And though there is a warning of a “systems crash,” there is hope in what has become a strange yet peaceful shadowland, in that we are asked to “Stay with me ‘til the sun kisses the horizon / Sail with me through the waves of infinity.” Echoes features cover art designed by Samuele Zichi, and it is scheduled for release on June 27, 2025.Pre-Save or Pre-Order Echoes at this location.For more information about Noumenia and their “Echoes” album, please visit them on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or Eclipse Records, and follow them on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, YouTube Music, Tidal, and Deezer now!The post NOUMENIA sign exclusive worldwide deal w/ Eclipse Records  first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow explains his troubled $30M personal loan, announces new ‘super app’Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow defended the $30M personal loan he took out from his startup, while announcing Bolt's latest launch.
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Live Music stocks close down again TuesdayLive music stocks continued their multi-day slide on Tuesday.
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A Magic Eye Tube Does All The Work In This KitWe’re used to low cost parts and a diversity of electronic functions to choose from in our projects, to the extent that our antecedents would be green with envy. Back when tubes were king, electronics was a much more expensive pursuit with new parts, so designers had to be much more clever in their work. [Thomas Scherrer OZ2CPU] has just such a design on his bench, it’s a Heathkit Capaci-Tester designed in 1959, and we love it for the clever tricks it uses.
It’s typical of Heathkits of this era, with a sturdy chassis and components mounted on tag strips. As the name suggests, it’s a capacitor tester, and it uses a magic eye tube as its display. It’s looking for short circuits, open circuits, and low equivalent resistance, and it achieves this by looking at the loading the device under test places on a 19 MHz oscillator. But here comes that economy of parts; there’s no rectifier so the circuit runs on an AC HT voltage from a transformer, and that magic eye tube performs the task of oscillator as well as display.
He finds it to be in good condition in the video below the break, though he removes a capacitor placed from one of the mains input lines to chassis. It runs, and confirms his test capacitor is still good. It can’t measure the capacitance, but we’re guessing the resourceful engineer would also have constructed a bridge for that.

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March 11, 2020: The Day Live Music DiedOn March 11, 2020 The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Congress that “it’s going to get worse,” a spooked President Trump finally addressed the nation from the Oval Office and schools, business, sports and the live music industry began a near total shutdown.
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“This could be really, really terrible for creatives”: Music lawyer explains why she’s “scared” of Spotify’s upcoming premium tierWith the likes of Snoop Dogg jumping ship and leaving Spotify, it’s clear that artists are becoming increasingly frustrated with the streaming giant’s royalties system. And, according to YouTuber Top Music Attorney, Spotify’s upcoming Music Pro tier might mean the “dilution” of revenue for artists.
While Spotify’s new ‘Music Pro’ tier is set to finally introduce lossless audio to the platform, Top Music Attorney’s Miss Krystle says the tier could negatively impact independent artists.
She draws attention to the tier’s access to exclusive tickets and other fan experiences. “Music platforms and distributors are seeing that the best way to make money is not just from streams,” she says. “It’s selling merch, selling tickets, selling experiences.”

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But in Miss Krystle’s opinion, the increasing integration of merch and ticket sales into the Spotify ecosystem will lead to the “dilution of royalties” for artists.
“Spotify keeps bundling things together…” she explains. “Spotify is [diluting] the pool by adding in audiobooks, listening experiences… [it’s not just] music.”
She recalls Universal Music Group’s pitch to investors last year, which preached the importance of selling “directly to fans”. Music Business Worldwide attended the company’s pitch at 2024’s Capital Markets Day, where UMG’s Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer Michael Nash vowed that “more and more of [UMG’s] business will continue to be direct to consumer.”
“We are developing more and more products and experiences for our most passionate and engaged fans,” Nash said, noting examples such as in-person listening parties, and Universal’s collaborations with Roblox, including the company’s Beat Galaxy music hub, virtual performances, and “fully immersive, 360-degree virtual Rolling Stones store”.
The focus is on the “superfans”, those willing to spend mass amounts on the artists they love. “The superfan DTC opportunity is not just a complimentary high growth revenue opportunity, it’s also an important competitive advantage that is increasing our appeal to artists and giving us the capability to do more for them than our competitors,” Nash added.
According to Music Business Worldwide, Nash also revealed Universal’s direct-to-consumer revenues. He claimed the company has seen a compound annual growth rate of 33% thanks to direct-to-consumer tactics.

 
The new tier is also rumoured to add remix and mashup functions, however, mashups could be a grey area in terms of ownership and who is entitled to royalties. As Miss Krystle says, if a user mashes up two artist’s tracks, then uses an AI filter to shift the genre, “who the hell does the mash up song belong to?”
“I think that this is something that could be really, really terrible for creatives,” she emphasises. “Even for me – I’m an independent artist, and I’m scared about what this means.”

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This car company is fitting its entire 2026 range with Dolby Atmos – here’s whyImmersive sound company Dolby has teamed up with General Motors to introduce Dolby Atmos across Cadillac’s entire 2026 electric vehicle lineup.
This integration will include the 2026 ESCALADE IQL, ESCALADE IQ, LYRIQ-V, OPTIQ, VISTIQ, and more. Select 2025 models will also receive Dolby Atmos through software updates. The rollout will start with the Cadillac OPTIQ and VISTIQ models, and will be available via Amazon Music.

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Given the cinematic and immersive qualities of Dolby Atmos, you may be questioning why such technology is needed in a vehicle, but it seems people are spending more time than ever in their cars. A press release shared by the two brands cites recent reports from the Federal Highway Administration, which reveal that drivers in the United States collectively drive over three trillion miles per year.
This vast amount of time on the road coincides with growing demand among consumers for higher quality, immersive experiences. A recent survey from Dolby also found that nearly 90 per cent of music streaming subscribers agreed that enhanced audio quality is a “must-have” feature, with more than half strongly agreeing. This is further reflected in the fact that 93 per cent of Billboard’s 2024 Top 100 Artists are releasing their music in Dolby Atmos.
“Whether you are listening to music to pass the time on a long commute or sharing a special moment on a family road trip, music has the power to transform mundane moments into something remarkable,” comments John Couling, Senior Vice President of Entertainment at Dolby. “Cadillac’s lineup of Dolby Atmos equipped vehicles is re-imagining the driving experience, ensuring every journey is unforgettable no matter where it takes you.”
John Cockburn, Chief Engineer at Cadillac, adds, “Innovation is at the core of the Cadillac brand, and our collaboration with Dolby marks a transformative shift in how in-car entertainment elevates the driving experience. Together, we are taking audio to new heights by ensuring the music experience stays true to the artist’s original vision, delivering a sound experience that makes consumers feel like they are in the music studio with them.”
Find out more over at Dolby Atmos and Cadillac. 
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